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When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Isle of Colonsay You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Isle of Colonsay
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Isle of Colonsay "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Isle of Colonsay
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Isle of Colonsay A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Isle of Colonsay
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Isle of Colonsay Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Isle of Colonsay
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Isle of Colonsay America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Isle of Colonsay
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Isle of Colonsay Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Isle of Colonsay
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Isle of Colonsay I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Isle of Colonsay
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Isle of Colonsay It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Isle of Colonsay
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Isle of Colonsay The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Isle of Colonsay
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Isle of Colonsay Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Isle of Colonsay
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Isle of Colonsay The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Isle of Colonsay
